on Friday's show, with Jim Lockhart....the latest albums from New Order, The Dead Weather and Dave Gilmour, in the Dublin Theatre Festival Conor McPherson returns with "The Night Alive" and in "By Heart" we come to understand the importance of communication and memory and the best of humanity through the prism of tragedy in author Bill Clegg's debut novel "Did You Ever Have A Family?"

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